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with us now claire mccaskill and tim demint. thanks for being with us. let me start with you, senator demint. your reaction, please, to john brennan. he seemed to say that this was a failure of human error, not turf. >> i was concerned before i heard him talk and i think i'm a little more alarmed because he seems to have a hard team saying that this is an act of terror, that ft. hood was an act of terror, that the christmas day bomber was an act of terror, and unless we're willing to recognize this as a global war in many cases against the united states, i'm afraid we'll fail to take the actions that we need to. the most important point now is that this threat is real. and we need to make some very real changes from the last administration, from this administration, we need to get the politics out of it and focus on security. but i was concerned that he would not give you direct answers particularly about whether these were acts of terror or not. >> senator mccaskill, we also spoke about the prisoners s is guantanamo. and half of those are now slated to
with us now claire mccaskill and tim demint. thanks for being with us. let me start with you, senator demint. your reaction, please, to john brennan. he seemed to say that this was a failure of human error, not turf. >> i was concerned before i heard him talk and i think i'm a little more alarmed because he seems to have a hard team saying that this is an act of terror, that ft. hood was an act of terror, that the christmas day bomber was an act of terror, and unless we're willing to...
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i agree with senator mccaskill. we need to take the politics out of this, but there's no question the president has downplayed the risk of terror since he took offices. he is investigating the cia rather than to build them up. >> senator demint, how has he downplayed the risk of terror? >> well, it begins with not even being willing to use the word. >> aside from the semantics. aside from that. >> aside from the semantics he's been completely distracted by other things as has already been mentioned. he is not focused on building security and intelligence apparatus of our country. the last administration president bush made a huge mistake by sending the yemenis back. the core leadership of al qaeda now is made up of those folks who were at the gitmo prison. we can't make that mistake again. it's not just about this administration. it's about losing our focus on security and i'm afraid politics and political correctness has become front and center of this debate. >> you know, that's just not true. this president is fo
i agree with senator mccaskill. we need to take the politics out of this, but there's no question the president has downplayed the risk of terror since he took offices. he is investigating the cia rather than to build them up. >> senator demint, how has he downplayed the risk of terror? >> well, it begins with not even being willing to use the word. >> aside from the semantics. aside from that. >> aside from the semantics he's been completely distracted by other things...
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republican jim demint of south carolina and democrat claire mccaskill of missouri. then our american dispatch from salt lake city, utah. where the mayor's attempt to liberalize liquor laws is get something local push back. the last word from michael scheuer. this is the state of the union report for sunday, january 3rd, 2010. >>> we begin today with the latest on the failed christmas day bomb plot. joining us is the man reporting directly to president obama about what went wrong and how to fix it. john brennan, welcome to state of the union. before we get to that christmas day bomb plot, there's breaking news this morning that we need to talk about. and that is just hours ago the u emba -- u.s. embassy in yemen closed in response to threats from al qaeda. we know you've been briefed by general petraeus and others and general petraeus was of course just in yemen. is there an imminent threat to all americans there? >> i spoke with our ambassador in yemen, the ambassador, both this morning and last night, and there are indications that al qaeda is planning to carry out
republican jim demint of south carolina and democrat claire mccaskill of missouri. then our american dispatch from salt lake city, utah. where the mayor's attempt to liberalize liquor laws is get something local push back. the last word from michael scheuer. this is the state of the union report for sunday, january 3rd, 2010. >>> we begin today with the latest on the failed christmas day bomb plot. joining us is the man reporting directly to president obama about what went wrong and...
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mccaskill: you know, this should not be as hard as it appears to be. all this amendment is doing is asking us to live up to our vote last year on the budget bill. what we all decided to do last year on the budget bill was set some limits on spending for the next few years. all we're doing in this amendment is saying we're going to have to live up to our vote. it's 2% increases every year, and people who have said well, there's going to be a problem because the 67-vote threshold. well, i've looked over the emergency votes we've had in this chamber, and there's not been a time that we haven't gotten on katrina or other things, any time congress has authorized force -- i want to emphasize that for my colleagues. any time congress has authorized force of our military, it exempts it. somebody said, well, the veterans. you really think we can't get 67 votes for the veterans in this chamber? seriously, it is time that we begin to live up to what we say. and in the budget bill, we all voted to do this. so let's put it in the law like we had in the 1990's. don'
mccaskill: you know, this should not be as hard as it appears to be. all this amendment is doing is asking us to live up to our vote last year on the budget bill. what we all decided to do last year on the budget bill was set some limits on spending for the next few years. all we're doing in this amendment is saying we're going to have to live up to our vote. it's 2% increases every year, and people who have said well, there's going to be a problem because the 67-vote threshold. well, i've...
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senator sessions and senator mccaskill, for example, have an amendment, which i support. because it focuses on spending. it starts with the 2010 budget, which is more than i would like to start with. at least it say that's spending has to be constrained relative to that budget. and i think there will be another amendment that relates to spending which focuses on other ways to save money. senator brownback, for example, like senator coburn, has talked about trying to end duplicate programs where departments or agencies or programs or commissions whose job has -- has -- is finished and we don't need them anymore, for exam. those are the kind of things that i think we need to look at and we can save big money if we do. madam president, the final point i want to make sheer is some -- here is some say, well, isn't this a little bit like the health care commission that would reduce medicare spending? and the answer is that there is a similarity at fleece concept. the idea in the health care commission, though, is to reduce spending primarily by reducing what we pay doctors and
senator sessions and senator mccaskill, for example, have an amendment, which i support. because it focuses on spending. it starts with the 2010 budget, which is more than i would like to start with. at least it say that's spending has to be constrained relative to that budget. and i think there will be another amendment that relates to spending which focuses on other ways to save money. senator brownback, for example, like senator coburn, has talked about trying to end duplicate programs where...
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. >> let's play what claire mccaskill had to say. >> from day one frrks the inaugural address, president obama said very clearly and very forcefully that there is a war against terror and violence that is a vast network, and we have been taking it to that network through the intelligence community, through additional resources in somalia, in yemen. oun like a my opinionopic focus >> claire mccaskill needed to spend a few more hours in bed this morning. >> i think the president won't use the word terrorist or won't call certain incidents acts of terror. is that a winning strategy and message? i put to it the izzas? >> they don't want to talk about domestic issues for the most part. they always believe their strength is on national security issues. they're very concentrated on the midterm elections, think they have an opportunity to win back some seats. they're trying to paint obama as soft on terrorism. frankly, i don't think they have a lot so far -- most of the attacks haven't had a lot of merit to them. but it's predictable that this is the direction they would go. >> i think ryan is r
. >> let's play what claire mccaskill had to say. >> from day one frrks the inaugural address, president obama said very clearly and very forcefully that there is a war against terror and violence that is a vast network, and we have been taking it to that network through the intelligence community, through additional resources in somalia, in yemen. oun like a my opinionopic focus >> claire mccaskill needed to spend a few more hours in bed this morning. >> i think the...
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i see my colleague senator mccaskill. she has cast a number of tough votes since i have observed her in the senate to question reckless spending. i appreciate her leadership and courage in speaking out on this issue because if we do this, it will not solve all our problems, but, mr. president, i think it will make a positive difference for us. it will allow increases as the budget allows for some increases before the firewall kicks in, but it also would make it very difficult to break the budget in any significant way unless we face a true emergency. i thank the chair, would yield the floor and thank my colleague for her leadership on this legislation. mrs. mccaskill: mr. president? the presiding officer: the senator from missouri. mrs. mccaskill: i join my colleague in this attempt to restore some sanity in congress about spending. i come from a state where there is a required of a balanced budget, and over the last few years i'm not sure how they would have done that without a quit bit of pain without the help that the
i see my colleague senator mccaskill. she has cast a number of tough votes since i have observed her in the senate to question reckless spending. i appreciate her leadership and courage in speaking out on this issue because if we do this, it will not solve all our problems, but, mr. president, i think it will make a positive difference for us. it will allow increases as the budget allows for some increases before the firewall kicks in, but it also would make it very difficult to break the...
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. >> senator mccaskill. >> thank you, mr. chairman. to some extent, if some of this has been covered i apologize that i want to make sure i understand about, and maybe guys aren't the right witnesses for this. this may not even the right committee for the. i don't know if this is justice, i don't know if it is armed services that it may be the armed services that the decision to where terrorists try to do our country home, where they are tried. and where they are processed. and i want to make sure i can with the president is before december 25. it's my understanding that there is no precedent in this country that anyone has ever been apprehended on our soil for a terrorist act and he really got into the military system. is that correct? do you although? >> i think the right witnesses in the department of justice, senator mccaskill that i don't know the answer to this. >> it's my understand, obviously a number of terrorist have been prosecuted in civilian courts in this country and there were a couple under the bush administration that
. >> senator mccaskill. >> thank you, mr. chairman. to some extent, if some of this has been covered i apologize that i want to make sure i understand about, and maybe guys aren't the right witnesses for this. this may not even the right committee for the. i don't know if this is justice, i don't know if it is armed services that it may be the armed services that the decision to where terrorists try to do our country home, where they are tried. and where they are processed. and i...
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mccaskill. mrs. mccaskill: i wanted to stop and just recognize that, that it's not completely gone. there are republicans and democrats that agree on things. i couldn't agree more with my friend from tennessee. this statutory commission, i think, is our best hope at restoring fiscal sanity in this country. i think it is important that we pass it. i'm proud to be a cosponsor of it. there are a number of us on this side of the aisle that are cosponsors of the amendment. there are a number of republicans that are cosponsors. but i'm beginning to sense that there may be some political game playing that's going to occur here, and it worries me. the leader, with all due respect -- i had a bipartisan moment, i will backtrack a little bit. i remember the republican party announcing this was one of their priorities, and now all of a sudden we're hearing that the leader of the republican party is opposed to it. now, think about that for a minute. before the shores got rocky for democrats politically, this was a great idea. everybody here knows we're not going to fix this problem in regular or
mccaskill. mrs. mccaskill: i wanted to stop and just recognize that, that it's not completely gone. there are republicans and democrats that agree on things. i couldn't agree more with my friend from tennessee. this statutory commission, i think, is our best hope at restoring fiscal sanity in this country. i think it is important that we pass it. i'm proud to be a cosponsor of it. there are a number of us on this side of the aisle that are cosponsors of the amendment. there are a number of...
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in addition, we've got senator claire mccaskill, congressman ed towns, congressman brad ellsworth. we got douglas shulman, whose the commission of the irs, and jefrey zients, our chief performance officer of the united states. here in our nations capital there are a number of ways to advance the ideals and interests of the american people. often is done through congress. but it can also be done through what's called a presidential memorandum, a directive that i get to cabinet secretaries and federal government employees to change how our government works. in a few moments, i will issue one of these directives to help stop government contracts from going to companies that are seriously delinquent in their taxes. this is not simple a matter of signing a piece of paper or taking a bureaucratic act. by issuing this directive, all of us in washington will be required to be more responsible stewards of your tax dollars. all across this country, there are people who meet their obligations each and everyday. you do your jobs. you support your family's. you pay the taxes you will, because i
in addition, we've got senator claire mccaskill, congressman ed towns, congressman brad ellsworth. we got douglas shulman, whose the commission of the irs, and jefrey zients, our chief performance officer of the united states. here in our nations capital there are a number of ways to advance the ideals and interests of the american people. often is done through congress. but it can also be done through what's called a presidential memorandum, a directive that i get to cabinet secretaries and...
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mccaskill used their grant to attract more anglers to the south dakota walleye classic festival. this might promote their destination moreh campaign, and vermilion used their grant to promote their ribs, rods and rock and roll festival. in the outdoors, the department of game, fish and parks have substantially increased opportunities for hunting, fishing and family vacations. we have 1.2 million acres of what in areas for hunting -- 40% more than in 2003. we built new boat ramps and extended others during the drought years and also added 314 campsites, 110 cabins along with upgrading nearly 1,000 other campsites over the last several years. a unique future project will be the potential acquisition and use of land at the blood run a national historic landmark. this site is along the iowa border in lincoln county. the game, fish and parks department will give legislators a full briefing on this project later this session. blood from was the largest oneota indian village known to exist and to be continuously occupied between the year 1400 the year 1750. as many as 6,000 american ind
mccaskill used their grant to attract more anglers to the south dakota walleye classic festival. this might promote their destination moreh campaign, and vermilion used their grant to promote their ribs, rods and rock and roll festival. in the outdoors, the department of game, fish and parks have substantially increased opportunities for hunting, fishing and family vacations. we have 1.2 million acres of what in areas for hunting -- 40% more than in 2003. we built new boat ramps and extended...
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senator mccaskill, my democratic colleague, offered an amendment on it yesterday that was voted on. 17 democrats, i think, joined with the republicans. it would have helped. it would have said that the budget which we passed -- which i'll explain to you how we violate -- the budget we passed that allows for 1% to 2% increase in discretionary spending accounts would be enforced. in other words, there would be a cap on it, and we put in this statute that we offered the actual dollar amounts in the budget we passed last year -- the democrats basically passed last year -- and we wouldn't go above that. it would take a two-thirds vote to go above those top-line numbers. that would work. this was done in 1990, in 1997 they had statutory caps -- not just budget caps -- and those statutory caps led to a consistent reduction in annual deficits to the point by the late 1990's we were in surplus for four years. i think 1998 through 2001. surpluses, first time in decades. then we allowed the statutory caps to expire, and we got back on this spending track that has put us in this deficit situation
senator mccaskill, my democratic colleague, offered an amendment on it yesterday that was voted on. 17 democrats, i think, joined with the republicans. it would have helped. it would have said that the budget which we passed -- which i'll explain to you how we violate -- the budget we passed that allows for 1% to 2% increase in discretionary spending accounts would be enforced. in other words, there would be a cap on it, and we put in this statute that we offered the actual dollar amounts in...
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we talked to people like claire mccaskill who would tell stories about obama campaign for her in 2006 and when they came to st. louis, not only did they have to have the fundraiser for the 2000 were 3000 people, but it would need to get a separate room for 15,000 people, because everybody wanted to see this guy. his fund-raising ability was at the core of why, as we talk about the democratic establishment being behind him, that was part of the political appeal, part of the wheat they demonstrated that he could be a serious candidate. anita dunn, in some sense, along with david plouffe, initiating a similar strategy for deval patrick in massachusetts, started to think about how this could be capitalized on to build the grass-roots army. when people came to obama events, it would ask for e-mail addresses, and it was the beginning of building the database for hope fund, and it became the core of what became the mass of a fund-raising machine. as they used the internet in i totally novel way to build this fundraising machine unprecedented in the history of american politics. anita dunn an
we talked to people like claire mccaskill who would tell stories about obama campaign for her in 2006 and when they came to st. louis, not only did they have to have the fundraiser for the 2000 were 3000 people, but it would need to get a separate room for 15,000 people, because everybody wanted to see this guy. his fund-raising ability was at the core of why, as we talk about the democratic establishment being behind him, that was part of the political appeal, part of the wheat they...
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we talked to people like claire mccaskill who would tell stories about obama campaign for her in 2006 and when they came to st. louis, not only did they have to have the fundraiser for the 2000 were 3000 people, but it would need to get a separate room for 15,000 people, because everybody wanted to see this guy. his fund-raising ability was at the core of why, as we talk about the democratic establishment being behind him, that was part of the political appeal, part of the wheat they demonstrated that he could be a serious candidate. anita dunn, in some sense, along with david plouffe, initiating a similar strategy for deval patrick in massachusetts, started to think about how this could be capitalized on to build the grass-roots army. when people came to obama events, it would ask for e-mail addresses, and it was the beginning of building the database for hope fund, and it became the core of what became the mass of a fund-raising machine. as they used the internet in i totally novel way to build this fundraising machine unprecedented in the history of american politics. anita dunn an
we talked to people like claire mccaskill who would tell stories about obama campaign for her in 2006 and when they came to st. louis, not only did they have to have the fundraiser for the 2000 were 3000 people, but it would need to get a separate room for 15,000 people, because everybody wanted to see this guy. his fund-raising ability was at the core of why, as we talk about the democratic establishment being behind him, that was part of the political appeal, part of the wheat they...
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if you're trying to target the base of say, senator mccaskill, then you might want to go to st. louis or kansas city. if you're trying to target the base of a republican senator, you might go to springfield, which is a very important republican city in the district. so you want to pick the place where the individuals would have the most impact on them and where you're audience is. then when is the most effective time to run the ads? one of the challenges in trying to run the ads, to either persuade, inform, or do anything before the vote, is figuring out when the vote is going to be. because the senate has no rules, and the number one rule of the senate is everything will happen later than they say it will, and so figuring out the timing is really important. you don't want to go too early, because then it will get lost in further traffic, and if you run it two months before, no one is going to remember. you don't want to run it right before the vote, because the person may have made up their mind by then. you want to run your ads like one or two weeks out. if you can figure out
if you're trying to target the base of say, senator mccaskill, then you might want to go to st. louis or kansas city. if you're trying to target the base of a republican senator, you might go to springfield, which is a very important republican city in the district. so you want to pick the place where the individuals would have the most impact on them and where you're audience is. then when is the most effective time to run the ads? one of the challenges in trying to run the ads, to either...
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if you're trying to target the base of say, senator mccaskill, then you might want to go to st. louis or kansas city. if you're trying to target the base of a republican senator, you might go to springfield, which is a very important republican city in the district. so you want to pick the place where the individuals would have the most impact on them and where you're audience is. then when is the most effective time to run the ads? one of the challenges in trying to run the ads, to either persuade, inform, or do anything before the vote, is figuring out when the vote is going to be. because the senate has no rules, and the number one rule of the senate is everything will happen later than they say it will, and so figuring out the timing is really important. you don't want to go too early, because then it will get lost in further traffic, and if you run it two months before, no one is going to remember. you don't want to run it right before the vote, because the person may have made up their mind by then. you want to run your ads like one or two weeks out. if you can figure out
if you're trying to target the base of say, senator mccaskill, then you might want to go to st. louis or kansas city. if you're trying to target the base of a republican senator, you might go to springfield, which is a very important republican city in the district. so you want to pick the place where the individuals would have the most impact on them and where you're audience is. then when is the most effective time to run the ads? one of the challenges in trying to run the ads, to either...
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we talked to people like claire mccaskill who would tell stories about obama campaign for her in 2006 and when they came to st. louis, not only did they have to have the fundraiser for the 2000 were 3000 people, but it would need to get a separate room for 15,000 people, because everybody wanted to see this guy. his fund-raising ability was at the core of why, as we talk about the democratic establishment being behind him, that was part of the political appeal, part of the wheat they demonstrated that he could be a serious candidate. anita dunn, in some sense, along with david plouffe, initiating a similar strategy for deval patrick in massachusetts, started to think about how this could be capitalized on to build the grass-roots army. when people came to obama events, it would ask for e-mail addresses, and it was the beginning of building the database for hope fund, and it became the core of what became the mass of a fund-raising machine. as they used the internet in i totally novel way to build this fundraising machine unprecedented in the history of american politics. anita dunn an
we talked to people like claire mccaskill who would tell stories about obama campaign for her in 2006 and when they came to st. louis, not only did they have to have the fundraiser for the 2000 were 3000 people, but it would need to get a separate room for 15,000 people, because everybody wanted to see this guy. his fund-raising ability was at the core of why, as we talk about the democratic establishment being behind him, that was part of the political appeal, part of the wheat they...
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don't think, until we reported the book, that we had a clear sense -- we talked to people like claire mccaskill, he would come to new york for her and they had to get an overflow room, not only did they need the room for the ,000 or 3,000 paying a lot of money but the separate froorm 10,000 to 15,000 people because everyone wanted to see this guy. his fundraising ability was at the core of as we talk about why the democratic establishment was behind him, they could see his appeal. that's part of how he demonstrated he could be a serious candidate. anita dunn, along with david pluff, who was initiating a similar strategy for daniel patrick in massachusetts they started to think about how this could be capitalized on to build a grassroots army. when people came to obama events, they asked for email addresses. that was the beginning of building a database for hope fund that eventually built into this online army that obama exploited in the 2008 campaign and became the core of their massive fundraising machine. they used this internet in a novel way in 2008 to build this fundraising machine that's
don't think, until we reported the book, that we had a clear sense -- we talked to people like claire mccaskill, he would come to new york for her and they had to get an overflow room, not only did they need the room for the ,000 or 3,000 paying a lot of money but the separate froorm 10,000 to 15,000 people because everyone wanted to see this guy. his fundraising ability was at the core of as we talk about why the democratic establishment was behind him, they could see his appeal. that's part...
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if you're trying to target the base of say, senator mccaskill, then you might want to go to st. louis or kansas city. if you're trying to target the base of a republican senator, you might go to springfield, which is a very important republican city in the district. so you want to pick the place where the individuals would have the most impact on them and where you're audience is. then when is the most effective time to run the ads? one of the challenges in trying to run the ads, to either persuade, inform, or do anything before the vote, is figuring out when the vote is going to be. because the senate has no rules, and the number one rule of the senate is everything will happen later than they say it will, and so figuring out the timing is really important. you don't want to go too early, because then it will get lost in further traffic, and if you run it two months before, no one is going to remember. you don't want to run it right before the vote, because the person may have made up their mind by then. you want to run your ads like one or two weeks out. if you can figure out
if you're trying to target the base of say, senator mccaskill, then you might want to go to st. louis or kansas city. if you're trying to target the base of a republican senator, you might go to springfield, which is a very important republican city in the district. so you want to pick the place where the individuals would have the most impact on them and where you're audience is. then when is the most effective time to run the ads? one of the challenges in trying to run the ads, to either...